Thank you to all of our member families who donated items for the auction and volunteered their time to set up, run the game booths, count tickets, sort prizes, haul items from storage, and do everything we needed to run our 7 club booths and the 2 shooting sports booths. It was a lot and our club pitched in to make it happen!
Our auction items raised a total of $1,400 for 4-H!
Our game booths pulled in a total of 11,288 coupons!
A special thank you goes out to:
Suzanne Leypoldt for being the big boss of the booths and prizes,
Hanna Copeland and Sharel Cameron for counting booth coupons all day,
Sarah Rodden for making the club auction baskets (wagons) look pretty,
Dave Buckardt for being the booth coupon runner all day,
Rob Ryan and Josh Ryan for being available to pitch in wherever needed throughout the day.
Since many of our members are new to 4-H, we wanted to explain a bit more about the upcoming 4-H Carnival.
This is Larimer County’s 65th year holding the carnival, which raises funds for the 4-H Foundation. The fundraising goal for this year’s carnival is $55,000.
The carnival is organized by the 4-H Foundation, with the assistance of the county’s 4-H clubs. The 4-H Foundation uses the funds generated to support youth with scholarships, awards, registration fees and travel expenses for conferences and competitions, equipment for projects like shooting sports, leader training, and so much more.
4-H members sell tickets for $1 beginning in January and leading up to the carnival in March. These tickets give the purchaser an entry into the cash prize drawing as well as door prize drawings held throughout the day. The center portion of each ticket can be exchanged for two coupons to play the booths at the carnival. Game booth coupons are also sold on the day of the carnival for 25¢ each.
The Foundation asks that all 4-H members sell at least 25 tickets. By helping to support this fundraising effort, 4-H members are eligible for scholarships and assistance with expenses. And 4-H members are encouraged to sell MORE than their 25 tickets. The members who sell the most and the club with the highest average receive cash prizes for their efforts.
The 4-H clubs volunteer to create and work at carnival game booths, and carnival-goers pay coupons to play. Every player receives a prize for participating. 50% of the funds from the booths goes to the organizing club.
Members and their parents sign up to work the club’s booths, and this as well as selling tickets counts toward community service to be noted in their e-Record books for the fair.
A highlight of the day is two Live Auctions, held at 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m. Local businesses, generous families, and the 4-H clubs put together items and baskets to be auctioned to raise funds. Half of the money generated by each club basket comes back to the donating club.
Admission to the carnival and parking are free at the event.
Be sure to invite your friends, family, and neighbors to come and have a wonderful, fun time and support 4-H!
This year, the Larimer County 4-H Carnival will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2024 from 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. at the First National Bank of Omaha Building (FNBO) at the Ranch (5280 Arena Circle, Loveland, Colorado 80538).
Carnival tickets are available for all of the 4-H members to sell. Each member is encouraged to sell their 25, but we have more if you’re feeling ambitious! If you run out, email info@lc4hss.org or call/text Sharel Cameron at 970-672-7368 for more. Cloverbuds are not required to sell tickets, but can if they wish. We have an opportunity to sell tickets at King Soopers on Eagle Drive in Loveland on February 10–11. This is a great time to sell your 25 tickets and many more. Click here for the signup to Sell Tickets at King Soopers. (There are prizes for the Larimer County 4-H members who sell the most tickets!)
Our club voted to donate four baskets for the Live Auction with the themes of Outdoors, Cooking, and LEGO. Please bring items to be included in these baskets to the club meeting in February.
Our club will also have 7 carnival booths: Iron Man, Toilet Paper Toss, Rubberband Guns, Lollipop Pull, Smack the Quack, Plinko and Pluck a Duck. We ask that all High Country Handiworkers members and parents sign up to work a shift. Click here for the 4-H Carnival Booth Signup.
There are a lot of members of the Shooting Sports project in our club. Shooting Sports will have two booths (Skee Ball and Ammo Pull) at the Carnival and we encourage members to volunteer for the Shooting Sports booths as well. Click here for the 4-H Carnival Booth Signup for Shooting Sports.
REVISED AGAIN: We’ve added another date. Sign up to sell tickets on Sunday, February 18.
REVISED: We delayed our ticket sales from Saturday, February 10 to Saturday, February 17 due to the cold and snow. Sign up for either Sunday, February 11 or Saturday, February 17!
Our club will be hosting the opportunity for club members to sell their carnival tickets at King Soopers (Thompson Valley Towne Center in Loveland) from 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 10 and Sunday, February 11. We’d like to have 6 volunteers for each time slot of 1 ½ hours. (Slots overlap so that each is only 1 ½ hours.)
This is a great opportunity to sell your carnival tickets. Members usually sell their 25 tickets, plus many more!
High Country Handiworkers members wrapped presents for customers at Murdoch’s Fort Collins yesterday. Thank you to the families who volunteered for this project, and to Murdoch’s for the opportunity!
Murdoch’s is offering free gift wrapping to their customers from November 24 through December 24. They have offered local groups the opportunity to wrap gifts and keep any donations. All of the materials for gift wrapping are supplied by Murdoch’s.
Our club is going to take a few of the time slots. We are asking for intermediate and senior members, along with their parents, to volunteer.
It is amazing how much is happening now. The Larimer County Fair is getting closer—only 30 days until Interview Judging Day, and then Livestock starts showing.
National 4-H Shooting Sports Championships
This past week, the National 4-H Shooting Sports Championships was held in Grand Island, Nebraska. Larimer County was fortunate enough to have 4 youth attend. A total of 34 Colorado members qualified in 9 disciplines.
Qualification takes place during the state shoot the previous year. Larimer County had 2 of the 4 members on Colorado’s Compound Archery team: our own club’s Walker Cameron and Jude Rudd. Walker finished 4th OVERALL…AMAZING! Jude was 38th of the 111 participants and the Colorado team was 2nd of the 32 teams! Tristan Noyer shot Recurve Archery and placed 37th out of 68. She was one of a few to shoot a traditional barebow. The Colorado Recurve team was 9th out of 22 teams. Our club’s own Tait Simpson competed in Muzzleloader and finished 57th out of 71, and the Colorado team placed 6th of 22 teams. This is quite an accomplishment for all four of these shooters. It is certainly something for all of our club members who participate in shooting sports to strive for.
Demonstration Night
Last night we held our second Demonstration Night and had 16 fantastic demonstrations given. See the club website for the titles of their presentations. It was a fantastic variety and as always, I learned something new.
4th of July Parking Fundraiser
At the last club meeting, a discussion was held about having a 4th of July fundraiser. A motion was made, seconded, and voted on. During our parliamentary procedure reports, Mr. Ryan has explained many times about the importance of voting. It is a privilege to have the opportunity to vote and each member has the ability to agree or disagree about a motion by casting their vote.
The club members voted to park cars on the 4th of July at the Stowers Orthodontics on Taft in Loveland right across from Lake Loveland. The Snyder family was kind enough to bring this fundraising opportunity to us, and the signup is on the club website hch4h.org on the home page.
Now, we need members to sign up! This is a club event and we need members who voted to approve it to volunteer. Our club just spent over $2,000 on club shirts for our members, so this fundraiser would help increase our available funds. Thank you for signing up!
Fair Entry
Fair Entry is due by July 7! Be sure to enter for your projects and interview judging.
Shooting Sports County Shoots
County shoots are kicking off! Make sure to sign up before the deadlines for your disciplines.
Those in Archery, please note that the event has been moved to the afternoon of July 8 to allow families and leaders to attend Jim Easthouse’s memorial service that morning.
Volunteers Needed
Volunteers are needed to help with setting up chairs and tables for Jim Easthouse’s memorial service. If you are able to assist, please come to the Foundation Church in Loveland on Friday, July 7 at 9:00 a.m.
Foods Meeting on July 3
The Foods meeting is this Monday, July 3 at 6:00 p.m. at the McKee Building. Our theme is Red, White, and Blue foods.
What an exciting time of year—watch for all the e-mails that will be coming over the next month!
Our club has a fundraising opportunity, offering parking spots at Stowers Orthodontics during the festivities at Lake Loveland on the Fourth of July. We need four volunteers (a member with their adult) for two-hour time slots throughout the day.
Volunteers can watch the fireworks from the location.
